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Lithia Springs, Georgia

8,067 Black residents · 48.5% of the place

Lithia Springs is a census-designated place in Georgia, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 16,644 residents in all, 8,067 of them Black alone — 48.5% of the place.

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Black share of state population — Georgia highlighted — the state in the national tile map, shaded by the Black share of each state's population. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171), Table P1.

Civic Snapshot

MeasureFigure
Total population, 202016,644
Black residents (alone), 20208,067
Black share of the place, 202048.5%
Rank by Black population among Georgia places51 of 675

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

Population Trend

Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Lithia Springs grew — 6,218 in 2010 and 8,067 in 2020, a change of +29.7%. The Black share of Lithia Springs moved from 40.1% to 48.5% over the same span.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.

The Record

Of the 675 places the Census Bureau counts in Georgia, Lithia Springs ranks 51 by Black population, with 8,067 Black residents. Every figure here is the published redistricting count for Lithia Springs within its official bounds, printed as released.

Institutions

Lithia Springs is a place of 16,644 people, and it carries its institutions at its own scale — congregations, schools, and businesses recorded in the federal counts as counts, and in this gazetteer as part of the county and state frames above this entry. The entry's work is the fixing of Lithia Springs itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.